NPR needs a backbone

[Commentary] Is National Public Radio liberal?

A study conducted in 2004 by Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, which found that when you used partisan sources, Republicans outnumbered Democrats by more than 3 to 1 (regardless of who was in the White House). Incidentally, that study also showed that NPR relied "on the same elite and influential sources that dominate mainstream commercial news and falls short of reflecting the diversity of the American public." Does that sound "liberal" to you?

Here's the real problem, NPR. No matter how mainstream your audience is in truth, or how balanced you are in substance, or how many opinions you solicit from average red-state Joes, the prevailing feeling is that your style is unmistakably liberal. In other words, NPR, you may not be left-leaning, but you're left-seeming. So please, NPR, the only recourse is to tell the truth. Do the reporting, show us the answers. Stop telling us to listen and decide for ourselves. Because you clearly can't rely on the American people for rationality. That folksy music drowns it out.